tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post7485778477258120879..comments2024-02-13T02:39:22.756-05:00Comments on EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Will the Ron Paul Channel Get Crushed?Robert Wenzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14296920597416905488noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-14365134663568388832013-08-19T17:25:27.124-04:002013-08-19T17:25:27.124-04:00The other way to monetize the channel would be sel...The other way to monetize the channel would be selling advertising and that game doesn't go over well if advertisers try to influence content. The subscription lets him be independent of outside lobbyists and influences.<br />Theta Workshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17336520169225949341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-74170196862101983932013-08-19T17:22:58.873-04:002013-08-19T17:22:58.873-04:00It costs money to broadcast a network. The subscri...It costs money to broadcast a network. The subscription is their way to keep this important channel operating. Anyone taking away from that hurts himself and the Constitutional message just as much as the rest of us.Theta Workshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17336520169225949341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-39039294748455094122013-08-15T13:32:52.614-04:002013-08-15T13:32:52.614-04:00Free markets and competition in broadcasting says ...Free markets and competition in broadcasting says the RPC will fail. I can watch Stossel, Ben Swann and Gary Franchi on Next News Network and get the libertarian views for free. <br /><br />As Ron Paul said, "People vote with their bellies". Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-77130420268191163112013-08-14T23:14:36.377-04:002013-08-14T23:14:36.377-04:00This is totally idiotic. There is a big difference...This is totally idiotic. There is a big difference between giving away a book online and having people buy the physical book and the same with giving away music online and having people attend a concert. If you give away the video there is no incentive to buy the video. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-25736709379115543862013-08-14T22:10:10.440-04:002013-08-14T22:10:10.440-04:00Robert Wenzel writes "...obviously, to the de...Robert Wenzel writes "...obviously, to the degree that the daily broadcasts are pirated and published on YouTube, RPC will lose revenue." I don't think that can be known with certainty at all. In fact, the opposite may end up being true. The Grateful Dead, for example, ended up reaping great profits from first letting fans freely record their concerts. These bootleg recordings Deannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-10250319244388929932013-08-14T16:11:51.219-04:002013-08-14T16:11:51.219-04:00Anti-IP types need to address these arguments
htt...Anti-IP types need to address these arguments<br /><br />https://strangerousthoughts.wordpress.com/2010/11/14/the-economic-principles-of-intellectual-property-and-the-fallacies-of-intellectual-communism/<br /><br />if they wish to be taken seriously.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-17057719240764316922013-08-14T11:57:09.689-04:002013-08-14T11:57:09.689-04:00Anon,
His answer will be to ignore that part of t...Anon,<br /><br />His answer will be to ignore that part of the issue as he always does. Wenzel thinks he can use the knowledge of thousands of years totally free and owe no one anything, but once he SUPPOSEDLY adds to it just a tiny bit, then he can sue anyone that dare repeat or use his tiny contribution.D. Lawless Hardwarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10416599643576620796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-91782228260918077802013-08-14T11:56:31.212-04:002013-08-14T11:56:31.212-04:00"That this decision making will have to be ma..."That this decision making will have to be made also erases the the idea advanced by anti-IP advocates that there is no harm done by copying material, because the original creator of the material still has his original copy. We can see the weakness in that argument most clearly in this discussion about RPC. Great damage to RPC can be done by reproducing the broadcasts. It can create a great Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-71434533877062875822013-08-14T11:56:03.943-04:002013-08-14T11:56:03.943-04:00Is the primary motivation of the Ron Paul channel ...Is the primary motivation of the Ron Paul channel to disperse knowledge, and possibly understanding, of the libertarian word view or is it to make money?<br /><br />If the former, bring on the pirates!<br /><br />If the latter, bring on the pirates!! The greater distribution will bring greater financial reward - with the help of the free market and imbedded advertising, as Google has amply Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-56343154104531427832013-08-14T11:46:16.244-04:002013-08-14T11:46:16.244-04:00It's extremely difficult, in the Internet Age,...It's extremely difficult, in the Internet Age, to prevent the spread of your digital "product." I say embrace it and find another way to monetize your efforts. Wagshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14719718595125311688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-76254068922554463282013-08-14T11:44:44.224-04:002013-08-14T11:44:44.224-04:00A Nonymouse is right.
I have no problem with RPC ...A Nonymouse is right.<br /><br />I have no problem with RPC deciding to charge a subscription from a philosophical standpoint - they of course can do what they want. <br /><br />Aggressively going after pirates, however, would seem to be extremely short-sighted in the modern internet-age. As mentioned, pirated-content does NOT equal lost sales.<br /><br />Personally, I feel like the type of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-74661017766269248912013-08-14T10:11:10.811-04:002013-08-14T10:11:10.811-04:00Bob,
Returning to part of the Rothbard quote (my...Bob, <br /><br />Returning to part of the Rothbard quote (my emphasis): "This indicates that any man ***who agrees*** to purchase this product also agrees as part of the exchange not to recopy or reproduce this work for sale."<br /><br />Here is the problem: <br /><br />What about the individual who did not agree to those given terms? Let us use this Ron Paul channel as an example. To Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-76580588106398089592013-08-14T10:06:24.174-04:002013-08-14T10:06:24.174-04:00The only weakness I can see in the pro-IP argument...The only weakness I can see in the pro-IP argument is the "lost revenue" argument. There is no guarantee that the viewer of the pirated material would have ever become a paying customer, and there is no reasonable expectation of ownership of that customer. If anything, the quality of the content, the delivery method, timeliness of availability, and loyalty of support would seem to Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17608338487986741434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-277368257539938122013-08-14T09:48:28.393-04:002013-08-14T09:48:28.393-04:00On the free market[...]There would[...]be copyrigh...On the free market[...]There would[...]be copyright for any inventor or creator who made use of it<br /><br />I have no problem with an explicit contract between buyer and seller concerning the permitted use of a "creation". (As Mises noted in Bureaucracy, artists often are anti market because of a inflated view of their importance) In a free market authors who placed strict conditions Josiahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02283350026155164077noreply@blogger.com